10 April 2019
Ring of fire around black hole revealed for first time
... around the world, scientists reveal what is likely to be one of the biggest shadows ever imaged – that of a supermassive black hole. The stunning picture, which represents 'a huge breakthrough for humanity', has been made possible by the Event...
03 April 2017
Milky Way black hole search begins
... Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) to take a never-seen-before image of the event horizon surrounding the supermassive black hole at the centre of our Galaxy – Sagittarius A*. These two international radio telescopes have now been joined by the...
09 August 2019
Is the Milky Way's black hole waking up?
...star just be shedding its outer layers making it look like the black hole was awakening? Some of the closest known stars, like S2, ... as monotonous as how the gas is getting fed into the black hole. If its irregular, then its likely to be quite lumpy ...
18 January 2016
Does a second black hole lurk near the centre of the Milky Way?
... Another idea is that that they are formed from mergers of many intermediate mass black holes. Many candidates for intermediate black holes have been proposed on the basis of their ultraluminous nature and lowtemperature blackbody spectral components...
23 February 2016
Researchers probe black-hole mergers with fast-powered winds
...) were follow-up searches in visible light (optical) up to the gamma-ray energy spectrum for electromagnetic counterparts to the black-hole merger. Indeed, just 0.4s after GW 150914 was detected, observations with Fermi’s Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM...
26 August 2015
Black holes ‘not eternal prisons’ Stephen Hawking suggests
... continues to make waves at 73. Now he has proposed that information can, in fact, exit a black hole. In fact, Hawking believes that escape from a black hole, “to possibly come out in another universe.” Hawking believes that such a trip is possible...
